Pamphlet-filing device.



H. HEMMING. PAMPHLET FILING DEVICE. APPLIGATION FILED Nov. zo, 1909.

Patented Aug. 2, 1910.

Y /0 IZ I4 NVENTOH HARRY HEMMING, F VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA,l CANADA.

PAIVIPHLETFILING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1910.

Application led November 20, 1909. Serial No. 529,113.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY HEMMrNG, citizen of the Dominion of Canada,residing at Victoria, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada,haveinvented a new and useful Pamphlet-Filing Device, of which the followingis a speciiication.

This invention relates to a cabinet for filing advertising circulars orthe like, such as are sent out by States, municipalities, railwaycompa-nies and hotels for the use of the traveling` public. A largeamount of this literature comes into the possession of hotelproprietors, but `for want of means for compactly filing the same wherethe public can have convenient access to it a considerable proportion ofit is relegated to the waste paper basket. It is to meet thisrequirement that the invention which is the subject of this applicationhas been devised, and in designing it the requirement has been kept inview that to be serviceable the system should be susceptible of'expansion to meet increase.

These requirements are met by mounting certain pamphlet holdingreceptacles by one end on vertical hinge rods secured to a correspondingvertical strip of wood. A number of these strips, which with thepamphlet holding receptacles hinged to them, constitute the units of thesystem, are secured side by side together and the outer ones have covershinged to them between which doors the interplaced pamphlet holdingreceptaclesv are held as leaves in a book.

The invention is particularly described in the following speciiication,reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, inwhich:

Figure l is a perspective view of a unit of my system showing alsoalternative variation in the construction of the pamphlet holdingreceptacles, and Fig. 2, a perspective view showing the cabinetcomplete, one of the covers being opened to show the pamphletreceptacles therebetween. Fig. 3, a detail of the spring by which thecovers are held closed. Fig. 4, an enlarged detail showing the manner ofconnecting the hinge rod to the back. l

In these drawings 2 represents along,nar row, trough-shaped pamphletholding receptacle of any thin light material, one of the sides of whichis upwardly extended as at 3 to form a back against which the circularsor pamphlets are lightly held in a manner to be explained later. One endof this receptacle is furnished with a tubular hinge eye 4: the width otthe trough 2 being tapered toward the eye as shown in the drawing thereason for which will appear later. The outer end of this receptacle 2-3is bent round, at the height of the back 3, to form a closed end 5, andextending from end to end of the receptacle and bearing against the backof it is a light wire frame 6 the uprights 7 of which are pivotallymounted in the bottom of the trough and provided with a light spring 8at each end which tends to press the trame 6 against the back toward thetop. This is designed to hold upright thin or loose leaf advertisingmatter but is not an essential feature or' the invention, as where theadvertising circulars have a sensible thickness it will not be required.The receptacle then may have a guard wire 9 along the front that willmaintain the circulars upright and will not obstruct the view or' them.Several of these pamphlet holding receptacles are threaded upon a hingerod l() secured to a back supporting member 13 of wood or the like,tubular distance pieces lil being interposed to maintain them therequired distance apart to suit the size of the pamphlet which thereceptacles are to be used for. A supply of these tubular distancepieces of different lengths may be furnished for variation as required.

Secured to the lower end of the back member 13 is a step bearing 1l inwhich the hinge rod 10 is stepped and that will afford it the requiredsupport and retain itl in place, but that will allow the upper end ofthe rod to be drawn outward for the removal or rearrangement of thepamphlet holding receptacles 2-3 from the rod, and the upper end of therod 10 is detachably supported by a light hook bracket l2 secured to theback bar 13 within which hook the rod may be inserted from one side. Theend of the rod where it is inserted in the upper hook bracket isprovided with a shoulder or groove that will prevent it working out ofthe step bearing 11 when in use.

The description thus far comprises the unit of which the magazine orcabinet is built up. These units are secured side by side to oneanother, as shown in Fig. 2 by any suitable means. In the drawing theyare shown as secured by Vmeans of two small through bolts l5. To eachend one is hinged a cover 16 which is provided with a spring hinge thatwill tend to close the covers on the interposed pamphlet holders of theseveral units.

In use the back of the cabinet or magazine is secured in a convenientposition either suspended from a Wall or adjacent to such on a hotelcounter and the covers 1G with their interposed units of pamphletholding receptacles Will normally project outward at right angles to theunited supporting members 13 which form the back of the cabinet. Soplaced the covers may be opened freely to give access to any desiredgroup of pamphlet holding receptacles.

The outside of the covers 16 may have a directory or index of thecontents of the cabinet, and the ends 5 of each receptacle Will bear aspecific reference to the town or railway While along the front face ofeach receptacle Will be indicated the particular hotel, etc., pamphletsof which are Within the receptacle behind it.

Instead of a spring hinge closing the covers on the pamphlet holdingreceptacles a spring 17 may be applied in `such a manner as shown inFig. 3 that vWhen the covers are wide open the spring will retain themin that position but when closed on the pamphlet holding receptacleswill exert their strength to hold them closed on one another.

The convenience of such a cabinet will be apparent to any one who hasexperienced the ditliculty of retaining advertising circulars of theclass here provided for: for although filing systems have been devisedthat may afford greater accommodation they do not combine the advantagesof compactness and accessibility for reference which has been the objectin this invention and that has with` these advantages the facility forexpansion.

Having now particularly described my invention and the manner of itsuse, I hereby declare that what I claim as neW and desire to beprotected in by Letters Patent, is:

l. As a pamphlet filing device, a series of receptacles in whichpamphlets may be retained on edge, a plurality of vertical back bars,means for removably hinging said receptacles to said back bars, meansfor detachably securing a number of the back bars together side by side,and a cover hinged to each outer back bar and provided with springs thatwill keep the covers on the pamphlet holding receptacles between.

2. In a device of the class described, a series of receptacles in Whichpamphlets may be inserted on edge, resilient means for holding themtogether in said receptacles, vertical hinge rods and vertical backbars, means for independently mounting the pamphlet holding receptacleson said vertical hinge rods, means for removably securing the hinge rodsto said vertical back bars, means for removably securing a number of thevertical back bars together side by side, a cover hinged to each endback bar and means tending to hold the covers on the interposed pamphletholding receptacles.

3. As a pamphlet filing device, a series of receptacles in Whichpamphlets may be retained on edge, a plurality of parallelly disposedhinged rods, means removably hinging such receptacles on said rods, aback, means removably securing said hinge rods to said back, and covershinged to each side of said back and having la normal tendency to closeon the interposed pamphlet receptacles.

4L. As a pamphlet filing device, a series of receptacles in whichpamphlets may be retained, a number of vertically disposed parallelhinge bars, means for hinging saidreceptacles on said hinge bars, a backconsisting of a number of back bars removably secured together, meanssecuring the several hinge bars to the respective ones of said backbars, each of the latter being a component of a unit, and covers hingedto the outer ones of said back bars.

5. A pamphlet filing device composed of a plurality of units, each ofsaid units consisting of a back bar, a hinge bar mountedron said backbar, and a plurality of pamphlet holding receptacles hingedly mounted onsaid hinge bars, and means for securing the back bars of all the unitstogether to form an integral structure.

6. A pamphlet filing device composed of a plurality of units, each ofsaid units consisting of a back bar, a hinge bar mounted on said backbar, a plurality of pamphlet holding receptacles hingedly mounted onsaid hinge bars, means for securing the back bars of all the unitstogether to form an integral structure, covers hinged to the outer onesof said back bars, and means continuouslytending to hold said coversclosed on the interposed receptacles.

In testimony Whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

HARRY HEMMING.

lVitnesses ROWLAND BRlTTAIN, ALEXANDER SMITH.

